Re: [Erlyaws-list] Mnesia user's question

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On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:23:37PM +0100, Carsten Schultz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a question from a user's perspective.  How do you practically maintain
> a Mnesia data base for use with Yaws?  I already found out that it is
> probably easiest, to create the schema beforehand and then start Yaws
> with `yaws ... -M dir'.  Everything cool and fruity.  But then how do
> you add tables etc while Yaws is running?
> 


Honestly, I don't know, I've never (yet) run a project combining
Yaws and Mnesia. They do make a perfect pair though, 
but as I wrote I don't know practically. 

I would however think that you wouldn't typically
run add_table and friends while the site is running. Admin of the
site db is an offline activity, or at least not a part of normal
website activity. 

So, say we're installing an app on yaws+mnesia, we're bound to have
a stage such as:

# myapp --initialize

or whatever

If, we want to do add_table while yaws is running .. through the
the web UI, well that may or may not be cool depending on the app itself.
Mnesia can handle it.


We have extremely cool tools in our hands, compare mnesia+yaws with
mysql+php. We rock, they suck. On the other hand, the rest of the world
is using mysql+php, and well, who am I to say they're wrong and we're 
right.

As for mnesia+yaws, we need a doc/guide here.



/klacke



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